Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-09-24
CALL FOR MASS-MEETlNGS.
The Federated Trades Of New York
lssuc Il Universal Appeal.

has been sent out for consideration
by all fair-minded American citizens
and Organized Labor in general,
and is well worthy of careful con-
sideration by every citizen who val
ues the much -boasted American lib
erty and free speech:
To the Uorh'ingnen Of the United
States Of NOrH .llHcrica:
You have heard the Supreme Court
decision in the Chicago anarchist trial,
l. strikes like thunderbOlt in the heart of
every free man.
The judges who have affirmed the SEN
tence stand on level with the notorious
police bandit, Captain Bontield, with the
barbarous prosecutor Ebersold, with the
monumental perjurer, Setback, with the
corrupt jury, with the tiger of the bar,
Grinnell, and with the scoundrel Of all
scoundrels, with Gary, the manager of
the greatest judiciary crimes Of our
times.
Our comrades, Spies, Parsons, M.
Schwab, Fielden, Lingg, Fischer, and
Engel, are to expire on the gallows,
while Neebe is to be doomed to death in
a dungeon.
And yet no man has the hardihood to
claim that any of these eight martyrs
threw the famous bomb on May 4, 1886.
From legal point of view not
shadow of evidence was furnished that
any one of our eight prosecuted COM
rades were directly or indirectly partici-
pants in the affair. Why, then, were
these champions of free speech con-
demned? Because they exercised the
rights guaranteed to all men by the Con-
stitution of this country. Though the
trial occupied nearly two months and
periured witnesses came trooping into
the court in droves, it was impossible to
lay any other crime at their doors.
American workers. Will you suffer
this outrage to be flung in your face? !?
Will you remain silent and allow the So
called justice shall be defiled in SO bloody
a manner-a dastardly deed alleged to
be sanctioned by the will of the people !?
1t must never be.
Arise in your imposing might and let
your righteous wrath fall in an unmis-
taxable protest upon the heads of those
Interpreters of the law who have basely
betrayed their trust.
The aims and purposes of anarchism
have been blackguarded and villitied by
the tiends of humanity, who feast upon
your servitude. You know how to
guard against such SANDER and assert
your own manhood.
Anarchy is not frightful chaos as pic
tured by the hired press it aims on the
contrary at the fraternal harmony of all
mankind.
What the anarchists strive at is to put
a stop to the wholesale fleeing of the
toilers by shrewd monopolists and the
robbers who masquerade as exchange
spectators. The suppression of every
injustice and tyranny and the establish
ment Of a social condition, where each
individual contributes his share of useful
work and enjoys the benefits of life in a
rational manner, that is our ideal.
Anarchism is neither bloodshed, licent-
iousness, or negation of every human
principal. 1t is Synonymous with hu-
manity, freedom and justice.
The crime for which the seven men
in Chicago are to be hanged is purely
devotion to those high and noble aspira-
tiOnS.
The beasts of capital want blood
Their hirelings have shown themselves
ready to seize the best and noblest from
the ranks OF the people and render them
up to their senseless rage
Workmen. will you remain quiet
while the strivings Of your people, ident-
ical with the holiest yearnings of man
kind, are sacrificed and trampled under
foot in the person of your comrades?
You know what is your duty. These
condemned men are suffering because
they love mankind better than them
selves; because they wrote and preached
to you and for you the gospel of the
future.
Now you llust demonstrate your
s0lidarity-the strength of your organ
izatiOn.
Gather together, summon our COM
rades from every side and proclaim our
opinions in such way that no doubt
can remain of their character
The workmgmen Of America must
show that their sense of justice and
their hatred of tyranny in this shame
less form has not been destroyed.
If you wish to do SO you can prevent
the consummation on November II of
this horrible deed to which the deeds o.
cannibals are nothing. We demand that
every man does his duty, and that you
say to this rabble of thieves and mur-
derers which rule you. Thus far and no
further"
Indignation meetings must be called
and held as quickly as possible.
Above all, it is necessary that the in
terpreters of the Constitution at Wash
ington be spurred to pass upon this
judicial murder proposed at Chicago.
The judgment of blood is not yet exc
cuted. Let every man do his duty and